Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When, however, the statement is made that "in the opinion of Harvard,-a neutral body,-Yale is the champion for 1884," we confess that the fancy is carried a little too far. Harvard expressly stated, in a mass meeting of the students, that she did not agree with nor approve...
The Dartmouth Aegis, 1 suppose, may be taken as a type of the similar publications in other colleges. As a type, then, it is an interesting study. Let us examine it. We find two engravings of the new college chapel and library, both very handsome buildings. Two prominent full page...
But it is chiefly to benefit the men who have hitherto belonged to no organization, to have such men feel some interest in their exercise so that they will work more regularly, that the squads have been undertaken again. No man need feel that he is too poor a gymnast...
We are not to suppose, however, that music had been unheard at Harvard before that date. The Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club, as is well known, had furnished delectation for years to many successive classes of undergraduates; indeed, in the "Exhibitions" which used to be held under college authority...
Princeton, and I have observed a gradual failure of scientific playing among the college boys; their "teams" do not plan a campaign and work it out, they trust to talk by judge and captain too much; but worse than all this, I have seen a lack of courage. There has...